Wright-Blodgett Co. v. Elms
Citations
- 106 La. 150
Syllabus
<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. Where answers to interrogatories on facts and articles all taken together present a complete answer to all the interrogatories taken together, the court will not order one of the interrogatories to be taken for confessed on an objection that the answer to that particular interrogatory was evasive.</p> <p>2. A party in answering an interrogatory, on facts and articles may state some fact as to which he is not directly interrogated, if it tends to his defense and is closely linked to the fact on which he has been questioned.</p> <p>3. Answers of a party to interrogatories on facts and articles relative to a verbal sale alleged to have been made by him of immovable property, which negative such a sale, cannot be contradicted by parole evidence.</p> <p>4. A person in possession of writings received by him from another person which do not per se evidence a sale by the latter to him of the real estate referred to in the writings, cannot, in order to establish such sale, eke out the writings by parole evidence on the ground that he had furnished a beginning of proof.</p>
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- finding that the fact that sales were made pursuant to a Rule 10(b)(5)-1 plan “weighs heavily against an inference of scienter”
- finding that the fact that sales were made pursuant to a Rule 10(b)(5)-1 plan “weighs heavily against an inference of scienter”
- noting that documents qualifying as public records may be judicially noticed by courts
- \[D]ocuments qualifying as public records may be judicially noticed by courts.\
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Judges: Nicholls, Provosty, Takes
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